[ale] Stupid smart phone

[Bob Toxen]

GOOD FOR YOU to block it from spying on you and tattling!

Bob

On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 10:44:30AM -0800, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> I've got a two year old Vizio that has RCA L/R audio outputs on the back.
> 
> Of course the TV does *NOT* have a built-in battery-backed RTC.  It wants to
> set its time every time you hit the power button via NTP and there's no
> manual way to set the time either.  So the firewall rewrites its NTP
> requests to point to my internal NTP server and blocks all other traffic so
> it can't call home like every other TV does.
> 
> On 2021-12-11 02:19, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> > Jim Kinney via Ale said on Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:22:04 -0500
> > 
> > > Other days it's more like the vcr clock always
> > > blinking "12:00" for lack of a $0.10 rc circuit to keep the clock
> > > alive during a power blink.
> > 
> > Speaking of for lack of, how many have noticed that oh-so-modern TVs
> > no longer have headphone jacks. You remember headphone jacks --- you
> > just patch the headphone jack to the line-in of any amplifier and bang,
> > you've got sound, and the sound is controllable by your TVs volume
> > control.
> > 
> > But noooooo. That's just soooo *legacy*. Instead of a 30 cent
> > headphone jack, my Samsung TV has one of those silly "toslink" infrared
> > fiberoptics. So you have to buy a fiberoptic cable for about $15.00,
> > and then a $40 fiberoptic to line level converter, from which I can use
> > patch cords to go into my amp's line in. Because I don't have a $500.00
> > "home theater" system --- but rather have a $30.00 20 watt amp that's
> > tiny and works just great for TV sound.
> > 
> > Well, after trying for days to get the toslink plus adapter to work, I
> > read that many Samsungs just don't work with those adapters. For lack
> > of a 30 cent headphone jack. Oh, and of course, the Samsung's built-in
> > speakers are guaranteed to be indecipherable, with various oscillations
> > at frequencies guaranteed to obscure speech.
> > 
> > A couple weeks ago we went out and bought about the cheapest TV on the
> > market. Picture's not all that great but it had what we really wanted,
> > a headphone jack. Now we hear great sound that we can raise and lower
> > with the TV remote. Life is good.
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
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